1727 Imperial Tiger (4)
The vast plain under the dark night, the army is vertical and horizontal, the army of 100,000 troops surrounded by the Northwest Army of the Empire and Gaul is brutally strangled, countless flags are undulating and falling on the plain below, the mountains are overwhelming, the wind blows the military flags and hunts overhead, the earth is like chess, the sound of fighting comes with the wind, and the fighting spirit is fierce!
The fat man stood quietly on his war horse, his eyes looked down on the earth as if there were two fires burning in his eyes, no one knew what he was thinking, it seemed that the life and death of more than 100,000 people below, the luck of the whole country, and the rise and fall of the earth were all contained in the coldness of his fleeting eyes,
In the first wave of the encounter, the superior Gallic army was scattered as if it had encountered a flood of dikes, the pikemen of the Northwest Army stubbornly lined up on the river beach, and the Gauls pressed forward strongly with the garrison as the echelon, and the two armies collided heavily
"Advance, the enemy will fall!" the Gallic officer loudly agitated the blood of the soldiers in the ranks, the battle flags were like clouds, and the local army was scattered all over the mountains, like a kind of hypnosis for the local garrison soldiers who rarely had the opportunity to participate in such a large-scale battle, so many troops, no one thought that they would fail, their blood was stimulated to boil like boiling water, as if injected with chicken blood, and the advancing army was wrapped in a rapid rush forward
"Boom"
Suddenly, a fierce fire, like a torrent of rapids, instantly shattered the willpower of many Gallic soldiers,
"Boom" The firelight of countless explosions, like countless golden spirals rolled into the Gallic crowd near the river, you can see in these violent explosions that it should be a small black spot of the human body was thrown to a high place, and then scattered like a heavenly maiden scattered flesh, directly blasting the Gauls and men and horses into the sky more than ten meters high, and then smashed down fiercely, smashing the companions into a blurred ball of flesh and blood, and the narrow river shallows, not to mention dodging, are hiding behind the rocks. It will also be torn apart by the shattering and exploding shards
It was a salvo of battleships from the flanks on the river, and with a period of silence, the Gauls had relaxed their attention to the battleships on the river, and dense infantry groups were moving along the river.
In an instant, like a large red turbulence swept in, a nearest infantry garrison regiment was torn apart in an instant, this time it was not the previous large-scale shooting, but the concentration of all the Thors on the battleship, covering the vicinity of the river with all their might, and the flying shells carried a whistling that tore through the air. Dispersed at a distance of less than 100 meters, exploded, patches of fire rolled up on the river beach,
The Gauls, who were outside this strike area, were completely stunned by the sight in front of them, the scorching heat wave carried the smell of blood, and the leader of the Gallic Seventh Garrison, Apuru, who led the team, did not even know what was happening, and was directly hit by the Thor cannonballs that rained from the battleships on the river, and they were instantly shattered. The horsewhip in his hand, which represented the glory of the family, was made of gold and tied with a golden belt flew into the air with the broken hand and fell into the middle of the river, carried away by the turbulent water
In the river where the explosion passed. The mutilated corpses and limbs were densely soaked in the murky waters of the shallows, and the explosion left deep pits in the shallows, and the red blood rippled in these pits, like countless red fuels flowing down the surrounding streams into the river. The red blood rolled in the river with the splash, and it was a tragedy
"Your Excellency is dead, Lord Apuru is dead!"
The Apuru squire guards were collectively stupid. The general actually died like this, according to the Gallic military discipline, the general died in battle, and they all had to be executed! The panicked attendant guards turned pale one by one, and some threw their weapons to the ground in anger, not all soldiers were able to calmly face this kind of explosive killing similar to a massacre at close range, with a huge bang, blood and flesh flying, and explosions at close range, and the lethality was secondary, and it was a huge psychological pressure for anyone.
"My lord, the commander of the 7th Garrison, Apuru, was attacked and killed during the advance!
Hearing such news, the face of Hasenrampo, a famous Gallic general, was extremely gloomy, and the battle situation in front of him was tragic beyond his expectations, he did not expect that this elite of the Falcon Army, which should be a rout, would resist a strong attack with twice his military strength,
Five or six local garrison regiments pressed with all their might, and fought fiercely for more than an hour, but they could not make any progress, blood was flying, and there were screams everywhere one after another, and the continuation of the fierce battle made the morale of the local garrison regiments high when the wind was downwind, and the demoralization characteristics of the local garrison regiment when the wind was downwind, and low morale when the wind was headwind.
The Gallic soldiers who pressed up had lost their high morale at the beginning, but began to show signs of cowardice, dodging and dodging, hesitantly being forced forward by the officers behind, and immediately retreated backwards after encountering a slight casualty.
In contrast, on the defensive line of the Falcon Army on the opposite side, the dense spear tips flashed with the terrifying edge of metal in the white rain. The sound of the spear breaking sounded like a dense raindrop, and countless blood exploded at the front end of the spear, as if a bright red mist suddenly appeared, because the rush was too fast, and the Gallic soldiers at the front didn't have time to stop, so they were pushed alive by the people behind and hit the five-meter spear that attacked people in front of them,
"Kill"
The red-eyed soldiers on both sides shouted the same sound almost at the same time at this moment, the metal hit the metal and made a piercing friction sound, the spear head was like a forest, and the phalanx was like a mountain! Solid as a rock, countless five-meter spears that rose like a forest shook between the shields, directly against the heavy shoulders of the infantry in the front row, a row of Gauls fell, revealing the sharp spear tips, and the falling rain hit it and was cut into water droplets, and in the silent sound, there was only the sound of heavy rain mixed with the blood on the spear falling down,
No one could break through such an array! The Gallic soldiers not far away saw this scene, and their faith was shaken, and in the eyes of these Gallic garrison soldiers, the front was simply a dead line that even the soul would be crushed
"I don't want to die!"
The Gauls' charge showed the decline after the strong attack, and some of the formations that pressed up like waves began to be chaotic, and those who hesitated, those who turned and fled, those who retreated backwards, and the clusters of arrows that were fired quickly immediately made these formations fall apart, and there was a faint momentum of being counterattacked, "The fifth garrison regiment has been defeated!"
"The battle loss of the Eighth Garrison Regiment is strict, Lord Bo Ed requests to withdraw!"
The unfavorable news kept coming, and Hasenrimbau's face became more and more ugly, and the encirclement of the 100,000-strong army fell into such an embarrassment, this feeling was like chasing a lone wolf that had suffered a heavy blow and the wolf bèi fled, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a fierce and powerful tiger.
The huge Falcon Army formation backed by the battleships on the river was as stable as Mount Tai under the impact of its own army, like a huge beast crouching on the river, faintly giving everyone an illusion of invincibility, and that feeling was like saying that if it continues to fight, it will be its own side that will collapse!
"Bastard, how can this be, could it be that the previous judgment was wrong?" Hasenrampo frowned, his face gloomy. Suddenly, he ordered the attendant officer behind him, "Go, ask the Tielan Commander of the Blue Holy Beast Cavalry to come here!"
When the attendant found Tielan, this Kyoto nobleman was gloating over the local garrison, and this battle was enough to make him prestige, so Tielan did not participate in the attack on the Falcon Army, he was a famous "Accordin" faction among the Kyoto nobles, advocating that the empire should be highly centralized, and all power should be taken back to Kyoto, and the setting of the imperial regional consul should be abolished. The Accord Bin faction is also a very radical military faction among the people of Kyoto.
In addition to demanding a high degree of centralization, Accord sent people. It is also advocated that the people of the empire should be divided into three categories, the first group of people is naturally the people of Kyoto, the second is the people of the interior of the empire, and the lowest type of people is naturally the external administration of the empire. Except for the people of Kyoto, no one in the other regions had the power to serve as a nobleman, and all the resources of the empire should be supplied to Kyoto. This very extreme political proposition was very marketable among the nobility of Kyoto, because the system of government in Gaul was to take the regional consuls to manage the territory of the outer provinces in addition to the inner provinces.
These regional consuls had full authority over local affairs, and could even form private armies to cover the sky with one hand, forming a warlord force and endangering the imperial power, which made the Kyoto nobles, who considered themselves superior but did not have the opportunity to serve as consuls, very opinionated.
They unceremoniously called the regional consuls of the layman provinces "imperial cancers"
The new emperor's accession to the throne, a series of repressions against the Julils family, directly depriving Julils Fort of the power of the regional governors, and making the Algernon family, which has roots in Kyoto, the governor of the northwest region, undoubtedly provided a signal to these Accord bin nobles,
That is, the new emperor will no longer tolerate the continuation of the chaos of these regional powers, and as soon as power is about to be withdrawn into the hands of Kyoto, the arrogance of the Kyoto Accord Binfaction begins to become arrogant, and they have already considered themselves the future core of power in Gaul
The Battle of Rasti, the full mobilization within the Gallic Empire, the gathering of 400,000 troops in Rasti, the appointment of the chief in charge has not been delayed, and the Accord faction is operating up and down inside, hoping to take this opportunity to grasp the command of the imperial army in one fell swoop,
In the eyes of the Accord Bin, the war with the Falcon Empire is just an itch of the empire, and the southwest and northwest regions are just the outer provinces of the empire, just like independent kingdoms, lost to the Falcon Empire in the northwest, lost to the Falcon Empire, lost to it, but gave the empire an excuse and opportunity to rectify other external provinces.
'Only by really cutting out the cancer of those foreign provinces and returning power to Kyoto, so that the empire can grow into a tree in the sky and survive for ten thousand years, of course, in order to make the regional consuls of other provinces obediently surrender power, it is necessary to have a strong enough army" This is what the Accord Binpai think about day and night,
In Kyoto, where the emperor was located, the Imperial Janissaries suppressed a qiē, and even the Accord Bin faction did not dare to expand too much, and after more than ten years of efforts, it only controlled the Blue Sacred Beast Cavalry, which numbered only 5,000 people, as the military force of the Accord Bin faction
And the 400,000 troops in the Rasti region are undoubtedly enough to make the Lay Provincial Governors tremble, but unfortunately, the appointment of His Majesty the Emperor is Hasen Lampo with a non-Kyoto background, which can't help but make the Accord Bin faction a little disappointed
In the battle of Nase, Tielan saw an opportunity, if the emperor awarded the army to Hasenranpo because he could block the powerful falcon army, then if he could show that he was better than Hasenranpo, and accumulate enough prestige through this,
Then the possibility of the Emperor giving himself the command of the army under the operation of his colleagues in Kyoto is almost undoubted, and it is also acceptable to sacrifice some worthless local garrison soldiers in order to make the empire stronger
"Die, die, the local garrison is the scum of the empire!
Tie Lan rode on his war horse, watching the array that was beaten in the distance fluctuate from a distance, and the countless local garrisons were scattered, but the corners of his mouth showed a sneering smile, this battle was no longer relevant to him, he could already foresee the best result of the local garrison this time. That is, to win a crushing victory, exchanging tens of thousands of casualties for a heavy defeat of a falcon army that was heavily damaged by himself, even a blind person can see that his talent is much greater than that of the first general of the empire, Hasenlimpo
Hasenranpo is just stopping, but he is defeating!" My lord, Lord Hasenranpo has a please" The attendant came from the side and whispered in his ear "Hasenranpo? Okay, I see" Tielan suppressed his smile and was surprised for a moment, in his heart. The aura of Hasenlimbo, the first general of the empire, will soon be his own, and the people sent by Hasenranbo are located in a protruding mound.
Seeing an emaciated Imperial general on a war horse, the night wind rolled up his cloak, revealing a blue general's heavy armor, and the distant fire from the river flickered, shining on the emaciated cheeks of the first Gallic general,
The temples were as white as promised, and the dark blue eyes were full of determined momentum. The eyes looked back like lightning, and the momentum of the imperial generals was like a tiger entrenched, which made people feel a chill
Tie Lan's heart that had just become excited suddenly cooled. Hurriedly lowered his head and buried the true thoughts in his heart deep in his mind, and sure enough, he was worthy of the person who had blocked the iron hooves of the Falcon King, just this momentum. You can feel the willpower of steel.
"My lord, you look for me" Tielan saluted Hasenlampo on his horse,
"Is the Falcon Army you defeated the one in front of you?" asked Hasenrampo with a stern face
"I don't know! It was dark. In addition, it was a short confrontation, the opponent was crushed at the first touch, and it was this one that was pursued along the way, and I couldn't find out the other areas, as for the direction, it was completely consistent with the direction of the retreat!" Tielan replied vaguely, he was not so stupid, if it was this one, it was estimated that Hasenlampo would immediately let his cavalry take the lead, then he was simply asking for his own death,
"Hope you're not lying!"
Hasenranpo snorted heavily, he knew that Tielan was one of the core members of the radical Accord Bin faction in Kyoto, and it was precisely because of this that he felt a faint worry,
"Since you can defeat it once, then you can defeat it a second time, your Blue Holy Beast Cavalry prepares!" Hasenrampo's voice stopped, and said, "The morale of the Falcon Army in front of you is simply rare, to say that this is a remnant army that fled in a panic all night, it is really unreasonable, if you have to say it seriously, it seems to be more like a piece of steel, under the impact of waves of this side, it is more and more showing a sharp edge that people dare not face upon, we can't continue like this, otherwise it will be us who collapse!"
"Ah...... Okay, my subordinates, let's get ready!"
Tie Lan nodded bitterly, thinking about what to do in his heart, the Falcon Army's military formation is so strong that it makes people chill, if he is a heavy cavalry like five thousand Praetorian Guards, it will be fine, and he is only five thousand light cavalry, although the equipment is better than those scum local armies, but light cavalry is light cavalry, how can he not become a heavy cavalry, bastard, Hasenranbo obviously sensed something! Tie Lan fell into a burst of anger on the way back
"My lord, what's wrong?" the squire asked in the queue of the blue holy beast cavalry, "Hasenrambo wants us to attack the Falcon Army!" Tie Lan's face was depressed, his eyes swept over his subordinates, and sure enough, everyone's eyes showed timidity, if there was a trace of contempt for the Falcon Army before, after watching the battle in the middle of the night, these Kyoto nobles would have already thrown their little arrogance to Java, "My lord, are we really going to attack the Falcon Army? was pessimistic, Tie Lan also felt overwhelmed, suddenly, the army on the side suddenly became chaotic, that was the position of the ninth garrison regiment, because it was used as a reserve, so it was the same as the blue holy beast cavalry regiment, and it was not put into battle,
But at this moment, the entire Ninth Garrison Regiment has been completely disorganized, and the soldiers are running, "Attention, there is a situation on the flank!"
"Flanks?"
Tie Lan turned his head in disbelief, the two armies have been fighting so far, the Gallic army that has not been able to attack for a long time is already demoralized and exhausted, the other party is attacking at this moment, it is undoubtedly a blow to the door, from here to that is a wilderness that is dozens of miles long, for this army, it is simply a fish pressed on the chopping board,
Sure enough, in the white light formed by the slight raindrops, Tie Lansheng shuddered, his lips opened slightly, and the whole person was stupid, only to see countless flags like ghosts, layer by layer appeared on the commanding heights of the flanks of the army, and the black cavalry clusters were like butcher knives raised high,
"Kill!"
As if the divine soldiers descended from the sky, the horse's hooves roared, swooping down from the side slopes like an avalanche, densely packed, and there was no end to the black iron stream, like the demon king army killed in the night, the earth rumbled, and the sound of the horse's hooves shook the earth,
"Quick, everyone get on the horse, let's evacuate immediately!" Tielan ordered his subordinates in a panicked loud voice, "The defeat is decided, we don't need to stay and die."
"Raise the bow!" The galloping Dongting cavalry began to raise the steppe bow into the air, and as the war horse advanced, countless feathered arrows flew into the air for a few seconds, and countless shining cold stars mixed with the white rain silk fell rapidly towards the back of the Gauls, full of an illusory and tragic beauty, (to be continued......